Word: nixon
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...just as it took anticommunist Richard Nixon to open the door to China, and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons to denounce misogyny in rap, so Dingell, Democrat from Dearborn and friend of factories, may be the insider able to drive change. At 80, restored to his wide-ranging dominion over the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, "John Dingell is one of the few people with the capacity to manage complex pieces of legislation where there are high stakes," says former House colleague Philip Sharp...
...history.' JIMMY CARTER, former U.S. President, in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, sparking a hubbub in which a White House representative shot back that Carter is becoming "increasingly irrelevant." Carter later said he was only comparing George W. Bush's foreign policy with that of Richard Nixon, which he called "good and productive...
PRESIDENT CARTER, later saying his original comment was only in response to a question comparing George W. Bush's foreign policy with Richard Nixon's, which he called "good and productive...
...team flare more frequently than the Senator's passions do, though they receive less attention. Last week brought the latest media stir over a salty McCain riposte, this one to Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn; it included both a "barnyard epithet" (as it came to be known in the Nixon White House transcripts) and a verb last in political news when uttered by Dick Cheney. (Notably, the harshest reaction reporters received from Romney when they pressed him about those laboring Guatemalans was "Geez...
...Sicko traces the birth of the privatized health system to Richard Nixon, who in 1971, on one of the White House tapes, noted that the scheme would work for insurance companies "because the less care they give 'em, the more money they make." Hardly anyone would deny that since then, the HMOs and pharmaceutical companies have made billions while Americans have health care below the standard of other industrialized countries, and pay more for it. (Even the flacks for HMOs acknowledge that the system needs reform.) Or that patients are routinely denied procedures they should be entitled...